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Thing Quotes by William James
- Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects…
- The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes…
- The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,…
- If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it…
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you…
- The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance…
- No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely…
- It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
- If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the…
- Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such…
- It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an…
- Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
- Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave…
- When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when…
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